You are brave, you are handsome, you are well-born; I would sooner live with you than with any other man I know--that is, if you were rich and, better still, powerful.

Become rich and powerful, Saduko, and I think that I shall love you.' "'I will, Mameena,' I answered; 'but you must wait.

The Zulu nation was not fashioned from nothing in a day.

First Chaka had to come.' "'Ah!' she said, and, my father, her eyes flashed.

'Ah! Chaka! There was a man! Be another Chaka, Saduko, and I will love you more--more than you can dream of--thus and thus,' and she flung her arms about me and kissed me as I was never kissed before, which, as you know, among us is a strange thing for a girl to do.